Senta's Sextant: 1942

Submitted by Dave on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 3:19am.

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September 1942. "Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is Senta Osoling, student at Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles. Navigation classes are part of the school's program for training its students for specific contributions to the war effort." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.

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Another well-known Senta

Submitted by bhk on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 8:27am.

Surely most of us here are old enough to have heard of Senta Berger?!

Senta ...

Submitted by monica on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 12:02am.

... is also my Oma's (grandmother's) name! I never heard of anyone else with that name. Always figured it was just a German thing.

Neat blog!

Foy likes . . .

Submitted by Foy on Sat, 08/09/2008 - 12:27am.

. . . nice arms.

Senta A. Raizen

Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 2:31pm.

http://www.speakersaccess.com/speaker.php?id=498

http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/u/171

Senta

Submitted by Ninabi on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 1:07pm.

I googled her first name and the word "chemistry".
Up came a link for Senta Raizen. She started off her career as a chemist.

The paper she had published by the American Chemical Society was back in 1949. Then, nothing further. I wondered if she had married and left her profession or if she was in her career field with a new last name.

http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/u/171

If this is her, do you think she would like to know her lovely photo is up on Shorpy?

I'm very impressed by her- to go into science when so few women did back then.

Senta's dress

Submitted by Mattie on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 12:43pm.

Her dress is adorable. I doubt if any high-school girls today would be willing to wear something with an eyelet lace collar, rickrack trim and ribbons, though.

Beauty and Brains!

Submitted by Eric on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 12:12pm.

What a lovely woman! I do hope she aged gracefully.

Clearly she liked science

Submitted by Ninabi on Fri, 08/08/2008 - 9:48am.

I Googled her name -- she later published a paper with the American Chemical Society:

Conductimetric and Potentiometric Studies of the Stoichiometry and Equilibria of the Boric Acid--Mannitol Complexes -- Alfred Deutsch and Senta Osoling
pp 1637 - 1640; DOI: 10.1021/ja01173a028